Chapter Summaries

Xuanzang spared Black Bear Demon by making him a disciple and recruited Elder Jinchi as an ascetic monk, gaining the temple’s wealth and more Points for Xiao Zhen. After traveling for over half a month, the group reached the area near Gao Family Village, where they learned a pig-headed demon had become the live-in son-in-law of the Gao family.

• Xuanzang stopped Sun Wukong from killing Black Bear Demon and made him join the pilgrimage team as a luggage carrier, earning Xiao Zhen half the Points for recruiting him.
• Guanyin arrived too late to claim Black Bear Demon as her mountain guardian, while Xiao Zhen asked Yang Chan for ice silkworms and thought about preventing Chenxiang from disrupting the Heavenly Court.
• Black Bear Demon pleaded for Elder Jinchi, and Xuanzang forced the abbot to join as an ascetic monk before Jinchi took Guanyin Zen Temple’s valuables as travel expenses.
• After traveling for more than half a month, Black Bear Demon brought an unconscious young man to Xuanzang, and Sun Wukong woke him.
• The young man explained that a live-in son-in-law at Gao Family Village had turned into a pig-headed monster on his wedding night.

Xuanzang’s party went to Gao Family Village to deal with the pig demon Zhu Ganglie, where Old Black fought him before Sun Wukong recognized him as the former Marshal Tianpeng. They brought the bound Zhu Ganglie back to Xuanzang, who was having lunch in the village.

• A young man led Xuanzang’s group to Gao Family Village, and Old Master Gao asked them to deal with the pig demon troubling his family.
• Old Black went to Cloudrest Cave and fought Zhu Ganglie, whose magic and weapons were stronger but whose cultivation was only at the middle stage of Golden Immortal.
• Zhu Ganglie claimed he had once been Marshal Tianpeng, and Sun Wukong recognized him as an old acquaintance from the Heavenly Court.
• Sun Wukong bound Zhu Ganglie and ordered Old Black to bring him to Xuanzang for questioning.
• Old Black dropped Zhu Ganglie onto a rock during the flight back, then brought him to Gao Family Village, where Xuanzang was eating lunch.

Xuanzang accepted Zhu Bajie as a disciple and gave the Black Bear Demon the Dharma name Xiong Da before the scripture-seeking group set out. On the road, a tiger demon lured Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie away, leaving the others to face a mysterious sandstorm and a powerful demon.

• Zhu Ganglie explained his past, swore never to harass Gao Family Village again, and became Xuanzang’s disciple, Zhu Bajie.
• Xuanzang named the Black Bear Demon Xiong Da, and the group left Gao Family Village overnight.
• A tiger demon attacked the travelers, then lured Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong away from the others.
• A sandstorm struck the remaining group, hurting the Black Bear Demon’s eyes before the mysterious attacker vanished.
• The White Dragon Horse told Xuanzang that the wind carried demonic aura and came from a demon at least at the early Golden Immortal stage.

Yellow Wind Demon captured Jinchi after luring Sun Wukong away, then blinded both Wukong and the Black Bear Demon with his wind and sand. Zhu Bajie brought Xiao Zhen and Yang Chan from Heaven, and Xiao Zhen healed the two while Jinchi remained captive.

• The Black Bear Demon told Xuanzang that Yellow Wind Demon had captured Jinchi, and Xuanzang sent Sun Wukong to rescue him.
• Yellow Wind Demon prepared to cook Jinchi, but Sun Wukong attacked the cave and was blinded by the demon's wind and sand before he could save him.
• Xuanzang sent Zhu Bajie to Heaven to seek medicine and reinforcements for Wukong and the Black Bear Demon.
• Xiao Zhen and Yang Chan met Zhu Bajie in Heaven, and Xiao Zhen agreed to help confront Yellow Wind Demon.
• Xiao Zhen returned with Zhu Bajie and healed Sun Wukong and the Black Bear Demon's eyes with an immortal pill.

Xiao Zhen killed the Yellow Wind Demon and helped rescue Jinchi, then left Xuanzang pills to strengthen him for the journey. At the Flowing Sand River, the pilgrimage party encountered Curtain-Rolling General, and Zhu Bajie began fighting him with White Dragon Horse’s help.

• Xiao Zhen pierced the Yellow Wind Demon’s throat with an immortal sword, and Sun Wukong smashed the demon’s corpse after it turned into a Yellow Weasel.
• Zhu Bajie and the Black Bear Demon rescued Jinchi from Yellow Wind Cave, and Xuanzang thanked Xiao Zhen and begged him for cultivation pills.
• Xiao Zhen left Xuanzang several bottles of pills before the pilgrimage party continued to a muddy river they could not cross without a boat.
• Curtain-Rolling General emerged from the river, and Sun Wukong knocked him back into the water before sending Zhu Bajie to fight him.
• White Dragon Horse joined Zhu Bajie, and Curtain Roller revealed that he had once served as the Curtain-Rolling General in the Heavenly Court.

Zhu Bajie recognized Curtain Roller at the Flowing Sand River, and Xuanzang confronted him over devouring Golden Cicada’s first three reincarnations. After Curtain Roller confessed and suffered the Jade Emperor’s flying-sword punishment, Xuanzang ordered Sun Wukong to kill him, but Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived to intervene.

• Zhu Bajie invited Curtain Roller to join the pilgrimage, and Curtain Roller agreed before kneeling before Xuanzang.
• Xuanzang recognized the skulls on Curtain Roller’s necklace as belonging to his past lives and pressed him to explain his crimes.
• Curtain Roller confessed to devouring travelers, and Xuanzang ordered Sun Wukong to kill him.
• Curtain Roller pleaded for his life and said the Jade Emperor’s flying swords punished him every seven days, so Xuanzang agreed to wait and see.
• The Jade Emperor’s flying swords struck Curtain Roller with especially severe force, leaving him unconscious and badly wounded.
• Xuanzang told Sun Wukong to finish Curtain Roller, but Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived and called for him to wait.

After Guanyin rescued Curtain Roller, Xuanzang accepted him as Wujing and the group crossed the Flowing Sand River. Xiao Zhen then learned that a mysterious sky screen was ranking wise rulers across worlds, while its creator, Chen Kun, profited from a deliberately pro-Qing ranking.

• Guanyin revived Curtain Roller, transformed him into a bearded man with prayer beads, and helped him join Xuanzang's group as Wujing.
• Xiao Zhen anticipated the next pilgrimage trial, considered Old Mother Lishan's connection to Nuwa, and completed the Nine Revolutions Fire God Art.
• Zhu Youjian asked Xiao Zhen for help after a sky screen appeared in his vacation world and announced a ranking of history's greatest wise rulers.
• Zhu Youjian showed Zhu Yuanzhang and the Chat Group the ranking, which placed Yongle tenth, Hongwu sixth, Yongzheng third, Qianlong second, and Kangxi first.
• Chen Kun used a system to broadcast his ranking across worlds and earned millions of yuan from viewers who supported it.

Chen Kun used the Sky Screen to intimidate emperors and praise the Qing rulers, while Xiao Zhen lured the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty into investigating him. The Tang soldiers arrived in Chen Kun’s world, leaving him facing an unexpected threat.

• Zhu Youjian and other historical figures insulted Chen Kun’s rankings on the Sky Screen, and Chen Kun blocked them before appearing as a giant figure to berate them and praise the Qing emperors.
• Xiao Zhen decided to use the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty as a vanguard and sent Li Tianming information about worlds connected to a powerful system.
• Li Tianming dispatched elite Earth Immortal warriors to investigate, then watched the Sky Screen and vowed to capture and punish Chen Kun for insulting the Tang Dynasty.
• Zhu Youjian received Xiao Zhen’s message explaining that he had lured the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty toward Chen Kun.
• Chen Kun used the Sky Screen to electrocute dissenting emperors and broadcast their punishment, while Qing rulers sent him gold and silver rewards.
• Dozens of Golden Armored Soldiers arrived in Chen Kun’s world, and their leader led them toward his location.

Xiao Zhen rescued Chen Kun from Li Tianming, took the Sky Screen System, and sent Chen Kun to live in the Qing Dynasty before cultivating to a new realm. He later rejoined the pilgrimage at White Tiger Ridge, where a young maiden approached the group after Sun Wukong went to find food.

• Li Tianming captured and tortured Chen Kun while Xiao Zhen watched, then began refining Chen Kun's Sky Screen System.
• Xiao Zhen ambushed Li Tianming's avatar, rescued Chen Kun, and escaped with him before the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty's ruler could arrive.
• The Adventure System absorbed Chen Kun's level 24 Sky Screen System and rose to level 38, while Xiao Zhen sent Chen Kun to the Qing Dynasty's Imperial Palace Eunuch Quarters.
• Xiao Zhen cultivated past his bottleneck, returned to the Journey to the West World, and found the pilgrimage team at White Tiger Ridge.
• Xuanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie discussed the desolate mountain and their hunger before Sun Wukong flew off to seek food.
• A wisp of green smoke became a young maiden carrying a bamboo basket as she approached the pilgrimage team.

Xuanzang’s group encountered Bai Shi, who tried to lure them with food, but Sun Wukong exposed her as the White Bone Demon. The group subdued her, and Xuanzang personally hacked at her still-writhing skeleton.

• Zhu Bajie complained about the dwindling food, and the group met a young woman who offered them steamed buns and directions to her home.
• Sun Wukong arrived with wild fruit and a wild boar, attacked the woman, and revealed that her buns were toads.
• Xuanzang challenged the woman to swear she was not a demon, then identified her silence when asked to swear by Goddess Nuwa as proof.
• Sun Wukong struck down the woman’s flesh shell, and Zhu Bajie blocked the fleeing White Bone Demon with his Nine-toothed Rake.
• Sun Wukong and the others crippled the White Bone Demon, and Xuanzang borrowed White Dragon Horse’s sword to hack at her skeleton.

Xuanzang’s scripture-seeking party continued west, killing demons, robbing the Women’s Kingdom treasury, and adding Red Boy to their ranks. Near the road ahead, a disguised Six-Eared Macaque appeared and fought Sun Wukong, leaving the party unsure which monkey was real.

• After Xuanzang finished destroying the bone fragments, Sun Wukong offered him a peach and Zhu Bajie prepared the wild boar for a feast beneath White Tiger Ridge.
• Xuanzang killed Kui Mulang after the Yellow Robe Monster sought his flesh, and the Heavenly Court’s constellations retrieved the dead star god.
• The party killed Guanyin’s goldfish, while Red Boy escaped their first attack with his Samadhi True Fire; Xiao Zhen later subdued him, and Xuanzang had his hair shaved.
• In Western Liang Kingdom, Xuanzang accepted the Queen’s marriage proposal, drugged her, and led the party in fleeing with the treasury’s valuables.
• Sun Wukong returned from scouting and urged the party to change routes, but another Sun Wukong appeared and accused him of being an impostor.
• The Six-Eared Macaque fought Sun Wukong because he hoped to replace him in the party and inherit destiny, while Xuanzang and the others struggled to tell them apart.

Nuwa exposed the Six-Eared Macaque, whom Zhu Bajie killed, and the scripture-seeking team continued toward the Flaming Mountains and borrowed Princess Iron Fan’s Plantain Fan. Later, Sun Wukong fought his sworn brother Jiao Mowang over a medicinal garden, and Jiao Mowang used a treasure to restrain him.

• Nuwa answered the monkeys’ oaths, revealed the Six-Eared Macaque, and suppressed him; Zhu Bajie killed him with his rake.
• Nuwa took the Six-Eared Macaque’s corpse, while Buddha Tathagata regretted losing the chance to recruit him.
• Red Boy explained the Flaming Mountains’ origins, and Sun Wukong went to Princess Iron Fan for her Plantain Fan; Red Boy persuaded her to lend it.
• Old Master Wang asked Xuanzang’s group to obtain an immortal fruit from a medicinal garden, but the Black Bear, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Bajie failed to get past its guardian.
• Sun Wukong recognized the garden’s guardian as his sworn brother Jiao Mowang, but they fought after Jiao refused to give him any fruit and accused him of being stingy.
• Jiao Mowang, now a late Golden Immortal, used a treasure designed to restrain Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong was struck down by Jiao Mowang’s Soul Extinguishing Needle, while Bodhisattva Lingji tried to claim the weapon before Xiao Zhen intervened and ended the tribulation. After the westbound group killed Nine-Headed Insect, they sensed danger in a village where disguised newcomers planned to target Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang.

• Jiao Mowang used the Soul Extinguishing Needle to injure Sun Wukong’s soul and knock him from the sky.
• Bodhisattva Lingji offered to defeat Jiao Mowang, but Xiao Zhen suspected he wanted the needle and warned Guanyin about his scheme.
• Guanyin restrained Bodhisattva Lingji’s greed, and Xiao Zhen arrived before Jiao Mowang was defeated to claim ownership of the medicine garden.
• The westbound group captured Nine-Headed Insect, and Xuanzang killed him with the Nine-toothed Rake after comforting White Dragon Horse.
• Sun Wukong sensed something unusual near a village, where disguised newcomers plotted to kill him and Tang Sanzang.

The pilgrimage team discovered that the seemingly ordinary village was a gathering place for powerful reincarnators from the Main God Space. After Sun Wukong attacked their disguised leader, the reincarnators revealed their strength and began fighting the pilgrims.

• Sun Wukong and Guanyin sensed something strange about the village, while Xiao Zhen's system identified the villagers as reincarnators on a mission.
• Xiao Zhen warned the Chat Group about the Main God Space, and its members offered him places to retreat if the danger grew.
• Xuanzang recognized that the villagers were outsiders and ordered Sun Wukong to strike the old man who had invited the team to stay.
• The old man blocked Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel with a Taiji diagram and revealed Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation, while a young man transformed into Ultraman Noah.
• Zhu Bajie enlarged himself to fight Noah but was struck in the nose, and the Black Bear Demon charged into battle as the young woman prepared to use force.

Reincarnators attacked Xuanzang’s pilgrimage party, but Guanyin arrived and the attackers escaped before they could kill Tang Sanzang. Beyond the Primordial World, a mysterious invader trapped Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Saints while his followers infiltrated the world to weaken its Heavenly Dao and target its Sons of Destiny.

• A dark-powered Reincarnator attacked Xuanzang, but Red Boy’s Samadhi True Fire drove her back, and a sci-fi girl trapped Red Boy in a Hyperspace Nano-Spatial Barrier.
• Guanyin descended with Buddhist Sect experts, prompting the five Reincarnators to vanish before she could attack.
• Guanyin failed to identify how the Reincarnators had escaped, sent two Arhats to report to the Great Thunderclap Temple, and stayed to protect the pilgrimage party.
• A mysterious man confronted the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao and trapped Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Saints in a formation designed to hold them for a hundred years.
• The Jade Emperor received Hongjun’s warning as Reincarnators began appearing across the Primordial Continent, where Heavenly Dao lightning killed some of the weaker invaders.
• The stronger Reincarnators began infiltrating the Primordial World to weaken its Heavenly Dao, focusing on killing the two Sons of Destiny of the Journey to the West Calamity.

Xuanzang’s group discovered that a zombie outbreak had devastated towns near their route, while reports of widespread chaos reached the Heavenly Court. Xiao Zhen volunteered to lead Heavenly troops to help the Qin Empire retake Xianyang City, and set out with a small force as unrest spread across the Primordial World.

• Xuanzang’s group found a bloodstained town and killed a child infected with the zombie virus before Xuanzang ordered Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie to search for and burn the dead.
• Sun Wukong reported that villages and towns across several hundred li had fallen into chaos, and Xuanzang suspected Reincarnators had caused the outbreak.
• Xiao Zhen learned that the Qin Empire was in turmoil, resistance factions had arisen, and some people had desecrated Heavenly Court statues, including his own.
• A messenger told the Jade Emperor that strange people had occupied Xianyang City and that Fire Cloud Cave had requested reinforcements.
• Xiao Zhen volunteered to lead troops to the mortal realm, and the Jade Emperor sent him with six Golden Immortal experts and fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers.
• As Xiao Zhen’s force set out, Fire Virtue Star Lord worried about how long the chaos would last and about the threat posed by enemies holding back the Dao Ancestor and several Saints.

Xiao Zhen joined the Qin Empire’s preparations to retake Xianyang City while learning of Bai Qi’s death and the enemy’s remaining strength. Elsewhere, Xuanzang awakened Golden Cicada’s power against the zombie hordes, and the battle for Xianyang began as the Reincarnators planned their defense.

• Xiao Zhen met Ying Zheng, Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, and Xiang Yu, and learned that Bai Qi had died after killing two of the five attackers who besieged him.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Xuanzang’s incarnations had encountered a Reincarnator spreading a zombie virus, and that killing the Reincarnator’s zombies could earn reward points.
• Xuanzang awakened Golden Cicada’s latent power, rapidly increased his strength, and ordered Wukong to hold down a Great Luo Golden Immortal-level monster so he could defeat it.
• Ying Zheng forced the old Qin Emperor to abdicate, and the Qin forces began their campaign to retake Xianyang City.
• The Reincarnators inside Xianyang discussed the Qin defenders and the threat posed by Bai Qi, the Heavenly Court, and other Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

The Qin Empire and its allies battled the Reincarnators, while Xiao Zhen used the Soul Extinguishing Needle to kill their Golden Immortal fighters. As an enormous insect swarm threatened Xianyang City, Xiao Zhen unleashed powerful flames to hold it back, but two formidable insects emerged and their master warned him to beware.

• Xiao Zhen ambushed and killed five Golden Immortal-level Reincarnators with the Soul Extinguishing Needle while Jiao Mowang fought their forces.
• Ying Zheng discovered a Corpse Refining Formation raising fallen soldiers and civilians, and he and Xiao Zhen confronted the corpse-controlling Reincarnator.
• The Reincarnator revealed Bai Qi as a damaged corpse puppet, and Xiao Zhen held off the other puppets while Ying Zheng fought Bai Qi.
• Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clashed with a Reincarnator wielding a large saber, while Xiang Yu fought a sixteen-winged angel.
• Xiao Zhen sensed a vast insect swarm approaching Xianyang City, took pills to boost his strength, and used a wall of fire and flame dragons to attack it.
• Two fire-resistant insects broke through the flames, and their master warned Xiao Zhen that they wanted to taste his flesh.

Xiao Zhen fought Empress of Ten Thousand Insects at Xianyang City as the Heavenly Court and Qin forces suffered heavy losses. Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s bracelet struck her, but she survived and began draining her insects’ power.

• Empress of Ten Thousand Insects arrived at Xianyang City and offered to spare Xiao Zhen if he became her male pet.
• The Jade Emperor sent Yang Jian and the Heavenly Court army from the East Sea to support Xiao Zhen.
• Empress of Ten Thousand Insects and her insects battered Xiao Zhen while the battle inflicted severe losses on the defenders.
• Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan struck Empress of Ten Thousand Insects with the Xuanyuan Sword, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s bracelet hit her again as she tried to escape.
• Empress of Ten Thousand Insects survived with a God-level Life-Substitute Card, drained two humanoid insects, and summoned the surrounding insects to give her their power.

The Empress of Ten Thousand Insects absorbed her swarm and overwhelmed the defenders at Xianyang until Laojun arrived and defeated her with the Eight Trigrams Furnace. After the battle, Laojun learned from Yang Jian about the crisis in the East Sea and warned that the invading fiends might retreat into hiding.

• The Empress of Ten Thousand Insects consumed her insects, reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage, and battered Xuanyuan and Xiao Zhen.
• Yang Jian arrived and helped protect Xuanyuan and Xiao Zhen while Ying Zheng and Xiang Yu struggled against the enemy forces above Xianyang.
• Laojun descended on his green ox, fought the Empress of Ten Thousand Insects, trapped her with a golden ring, and sealed her inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• The Reincarnators began fleeing as Shennong and the others defeated another enemy, while Xiao Zhen killed two Golden Immortal-level Reincarnators.
• Xiao Zhen thanked Laojun, who warned him that his pill use could damage his foundation; Yang Jian then reported on the situation in the East Sea.
• Laojun said His Majesty was gathering powerful allies to attack the fiends invading the Primordial World and warned that hidden enemies would be especially troublesome.